The Hilton Brighton Metropole is a 4-star hotel and conference centre located on the seafront in

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. The architect was

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, who also was architect of

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and the

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.''My Brighton & Hove'' website, accessed 8 November 2011
/ref> Currently the UK's largest residential

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in the South of England, it was built in 1890 and has 340 bedrooms. The General Manager is Sascha Koehler who has worked with Hilton for 20 years. The hotel has 5 elevators which 3 serve the tower block floors. The 2 original elevators were originally manually controlled and the other 3 were added in the 1970s including the luggage elevator. All 5 elevators were installed by

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. Since 2000, the hotel has been operated by

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(previously it operated under the Stakis brand), and previously owned by

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, its freehold is now owned by the Topland Group. Flats addon 1960s-1970s In the 1960s or 1970s a 2 story flat block was built on top of the hotel for residential use. The flats are your typical 1960s tower block style building and when the apartments were built onto the hotel It is referenced in section 3, "The Fire Sermon" of T. S. Eliot's ''

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''.

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* Alfred Waterhouse buildings Exhibition and conference centres in England

Hotel buildings completed in 1890 Hotels established in 1890 Hotels in Brighton and Hove {{UK-hotel-struct-stub